Sweet and infinite sensitivity, Tom McRAE provides popular pop with elegant and overwhelming simplicity that affects the public.
Twenty -five years behind, Tom McRAe published a branded first album and began a musical visit to France. Rich in discoveries and contacts, it then allows this sensitive British to become familiar with the universes of Alain Bashung, Dominique A, Françoise Hardy, Keren Ann. It is no wonder that echo works for the highlighted man, what is, moreover, from the Dylanian Pop popular gesture, which also works for the “spleen” and the poetic register. His unique profile that has already attracted the attention of nothing less than Scott Walker, inspiration for David Bowie, and then a whole generation of singers from the 1980s and 1990s. And the first album published by Tom McRAE is the Mercury Prize Prize With the Constantine Award in France) (award awarded by the Group of “Q” in Great Britain it disappeared in 2020) that the musician acquires.
Aristocratic
Since then, famous collaborations with Blur and Elbow producer Ben Hillier on the second album “Just like Blood”, then with the musicians of Beck, Air, Sheryl Crow and others in the third “All maps welcome” will end up confirming the particularity and interest of the know -how. Marianne Faithfull (recently disappeared and for which new titles will soon be available) has not failed to call Tom to his album “Give My Love to London” (2014), but we also find her music on television and cinema as well as the offices of many European Orchestra. As for him, his latest album, “Strange Winter”, opens Big’s grooves in a beautiful list of friends singers/not pretending: Keren Ann, Black Dog, Nail, Alex Beaupain, Vanilla, Aïtone, Rose, Naya, Alma Forrer, Julien Brocal and Helena Noguerra. Everyone has their place in the space that welcomes the Tom songs. A miracle …
